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Title: Age at Arrival and Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
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Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: We estimate the importance of age at arrival for immigrant outcomes with a new dataset of arrivals linked to the 1940 Census. We find that brothers who arrived at younger ages, or those with more childhood exposure to the American environment, had much higher adult incomes than older-arriving brothers. The high return to human capital acquired during childhood contrasts with a low rate of assimilation during this period. The effect of age at arrival is a primary determinant of a source country’s skill gap with natives, and may be more important than other factors like selection or discrimination.
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Authors: Alexander, Rohan; Ward, Zachary
Publisher: Australian National University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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